Word: seemly
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...story placed in the high life of St. Petersburg. There are enough larynxruffling gutterals in the name of the various "vitches" and "ovnas" to make a careless reader believe that it is a powerful Russian story, but a closer perusal will show that things are not always what they seem. It takes more than a few well-compounded consonants to make a good story Russian Turkish or Chinese. Some minor verses and book notices make up the rest of the number...
...think that I could have gone through college and got along with a sum materially smaller than that which I have had ($1000 a year). In view of the small sum on which some men go through college, it may seem ridiculous for me to say this, but I do not consider that I have been extravagant, though in some cases I might have spent more judiciously...
...wish you to consider these figures. They are not startling, but they seem to me to indicate that a soberly, sensible average of expense prevails at Harvard. They suggest that students are, after all, merely young men temporarily removed from homes, and that they are practicing here, without violent change, the habits which the home has formed. Those who have been accustomed to large expenditure spend freely here; those of quiet and considerate habits do not lightly abandon them. But it may seem that the smallest of the sums named is large for a poor man. It may be believed...
...Harvard team it can be said that they blocked off well, but their tackling was for the most part miserable, and the half-backs do not seem to know where they are to kick the ball. For Harvard, Harding, Wood, Porter and Brandlee did good work, and Belden, Kimball and Orcutt for Williams. The Williams team lacked the services of Compell who played half back on the team, but had his collar bone broken a few days ago. He also played short-stop on the Williams nine last year. Hotchkiss played on the Andover team two years ago at centre...
...candidates for the freshmen eleven on Jarvis Field yesterday afternoon was exceptionally small, and the men themselves very light. Captain Clark arranged the men on sides, and a half-hour was spent in practice. As might have been expected, there was considerable fumbling, and the men did not seem to know exactly what to do or which way to run, and the quarterbacks had no idea how to throw the ball...